Month: September 2017

The Databox project will be have its first birthday this November. A lot has happened since last year, especially on the platform and analytics side. Please join us for the Year 1 roundup of the research, prototype, and demos of the Databox project. the event will be in the IET London and will include fun and interactive demos with personal data and IoT devices, in addition to research highlights, panel discussions, and debates around the next steps for the project over the next 2 years.

We will present the public release of a working open source Databox platform, which can be run on any device capable of running Docker containers. We endeavour to provide support for ARM devices such as the Raspberry Pi 3 for this release. This initial release has basic data collection support through mobile sensing libraries and selected APIs, provides basic data flow policing and privacy policy enforcement, and supports installation and operation of simple personal data processing apps. At this event we will briefly introduce and demo the Databox to you, then we hope to engage with security & privacy enthusiasts, data visualisation & analytics fans, and potential app developers to begin building a community and ecosystem around the Databox. We’re open to contributions of all kinds, from improvements to core components, to helping you integrate your favourite IoT devices, to brainstorming what apps and devices you want to see the Databox support!